Kword TV tuner with MythTv

[sennico 0]

I looking into setting up a Myth TV box. I want to use antec minuet case which requires low profile pci cards. Does anyone know if the Kworld Xpert TV PVR 883 works with any distros? If not does anyone have any suggestions for an inexpensive low profile tv tuner. Thanks

[Dapper Dan 0]

I wouldn't know first hand, but I found this for you..

[mpsii 0]

OMG... Stay away from KWorld!!! They use the the cx88 driver in Linux, but are not autodetected. The radio has never worked.

[allensco 0]

Hi folks,

 

System: Fedora Core 3 / AMD Athlon 1.4 / 1 GB RAM / nVidia 64mb video w/3d acceleration / KWorld V-Stream DV/AV Expert TV Stereo card with Conexant chipset. Sticker on the bottom of the card says: KW-TV883DVR-Pro

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Has ANYONE been able to get a KWorld TV card to work? I have one and would love to have it working. On a "dmesg" dump, I get a message that the card cannot be autodetected and to pass the insmod option "card=xx" to workaround it ("xx" being the correct number of the tuner this card has..."14" is the one my card has I believe). Here is the relevant section of my dmesg dump:

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Linux video capture interface: v1.00

cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11

cx88[0]: Your board has no valid PCI Subsystem ID and thus can't

cx88[0]: be autodetected. Please pass card=<n> insmod option to

cx88[0]: workaround that. Redirect complaints to the vendor of

cx88[0]: the TV card. Best regards,

cx88[0]: -- tux

cx88[0]: Here is a list of valid choices for the card=<n> insmod option:

cx88[0]: card=0 -> UNKNOWN/GENERIC

cx88[0]: card=1 -> Hauppauge WinTV 34xxx models

cx88[0]: card=2 -> GDI Black Gold

cx88[0]: card=3 -> PixelView

cx88[0]: card=4 -> ATI TV Wonder Pro

cx88[0]: card=5 -> Leadtek Winfast 2000XP Expert

cx88[0]: card=6 -> AverTV Studio 303 (M126)

cx88[0]: card=7 -> MSI TV-@nywhere Master

cx88[0]: card=8 -> Leadtek Winfast DV2000

cx88[0]: card=9 -> Leadtek PVR 2000

cx88[0]: card=10 -> IODATA GV-VCP3/PCI

cx88[0]: card=11 -> Prolink PlayTV PVR

cx88[0]: card=12 -> ASUS PVR-416

cx88[0]: card=13 -> MSI TV-@nywhere

cx88[0]: card=14 -> KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T

cx88[0]: card=15 -> DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T1

cx88[0]: card=16 -> KWorld LTV883RF

cx88[0]: card=17 -> DViCO - FusionHDTV 3 Gold

cx88[0]: card=18 -> Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T

cx88[0]: card=19 -> Conexant DVB-T reference design

cx88[0]: card=20 -> Provideo PV259

cx88[0]: card=21 -> DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus

cx88[0]: subsystem: 0000:0000, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]

cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:02:08.0, rev: 5, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 0xde000000

tuner: chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus cx88[0]

cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]

cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0

cx88[0]/0: cx88: tvaudio thread started

cx88[0]/0: AUD_STATUS: 0x36 [mono/pilot c1] ctl=BTSC_FORCE_MONO

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Anyone have any ideas on how to pass the correct insmod option so I can see if it will work?

 

Thanks!

Allen

[chupacabra 0]

I have this card and the radio works great, much better than with Windows. You just need to pass card=16 to the driver like so.

modprobe cx88xx card=16 audio_debug=0 tuner=2

modprobe cx8800

 

I have to use the tuner option because I have an NTSC card, it should work without it for PAL.

 

I haven't got the IRda remote to work yet though.